Jordan Peterson
What does this mean?How we determined this rating:
- Editorial Review: Apr 2025
- AllSides has low or initial confidence in this bias rating.
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Learn about our bias rating methodsAbout Jordan Peterson's Bias Rating
Jordan Peterson is a influencer source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Right.
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist and author. He is affiliated with the Daily Wire. He's written about masculinity, chaos, mental health, politics, wokeness and religion.
What a "Lean Right" Rating Means
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum.
Learn more about Lean Right ratingsBias Reviews
We use multiple methods to analyze sources. Learn how we rate media bias.Jordan Peterson Rated Lean Right in April 2025 Small Group Editorial Review
A group of three AllSides reviewers on the left, center, and right rated Jordan Peterson Lean Right in an April 2025 Small Group Editorial Review. The Right reviewer said Peterson is "classically liberal in many ways," but the Center reviewer noted his work with the Daily Wire and that on the topic of politics, he has frequently noted the Democratic Party is out of touch. He has also been critical of gender ideology and argued the West needs to reconsider multiculturalism.
Peterson has criticized Candance Owens and Andrew Tate.
Confidence Level
Confidence is determined by how many reviews have been applied and consistency of data.As of June 2026, AllSides has low or initial confidence in our Lean Right rating for Jordan Peterson. If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase.